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Earlier this week, Gozo Bishop Anton Teuma led a thanksgiving Mass at the Good Shepherd church at Taċ-Ċawla, in Victoria, to mark the 40th anniversary of the co
Saint George’s parish is marking the 201st issue of Il-Belt Victoria, a newsletter that has survived four decades and kept going strong the link between a parish and its parishioners.
It was early in 1981 that during a seminar presided by the late Bishop Nikol Cauchi, Dean of St George’s Collegiate and the late Mgr Emmanuel Mercieca, who was then archpriest, it was decided that St George’s parish should have its own bimonthly publication.
The first edition of Il-Belt Victoria was issued in July-August 1981.
The basilica’s review covers different articles varying from the historical and cultural to the liturgical and pastoral, including important events such as the centenary celebrations of 1984 and 2003, as well the papal visits by Saint John Paul II, in May 1990, and the one by Benedict XVI, in 2010.
Għarb Local Council recently honoured ‘Servant of the Lord’ Franġisk Portelli with a commemorative plaque and flowers which were placed in front of his house.
The council had also placed a formal request to the Planning Authority to give protection to Portelli’s house. In fact, the property has now scheduled as a Grade 2 building for its cultural, social and architecural value.
Portelli, of Għarb, confirmed under oath that (around 1883) he had received special messages from the Virgin Lady of Ta’ Pinu.
On six occasions he had heard a voice coming from the holy picture of the Virgin Lady asking him to encourage a special devotion to the hidden wound of Her beloved Son – the wound caused by the weight of the cross on his shoulders.
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